My experience with BYOD is in the Education Department at VIU. I recently developed and implemented a Blended course for the PB students in the education department that was also BYOD. I did not determine what the devices should be and had a dozen iPads on hand for anybody who did not have device. All but a few people brought their own devices: Macbooks, Windows Laptops, Android tablets, iPads, Netbooks...
The pedagogy I was using made the type of device not important. Example: Groups research together for 15 minutes, topics handed out on slips of paper (Topics were to prepare students for practicum and included: Tips on classroom management, dealing with difficult students, dealing with gifted students...) Students were to be prepared to present on their topic together. A type of jigsaw. This worked swimmingly (except from when I talked too much and we did not have time to present. Instead we posted it all to a Google doc in 15 minute!!) The only activities in which I had all students engage at the same time were browser-based: Google Doc brainstorm, Google+ Posts, research... so I did not have any problems. As long as I did not try to do something software-based I was okay. BYOD allowed me to do things without needing to book lab space (especially as the lab would only fit half of my students). I also did not need to have students buy a textbook. (I don't even know what textbook it would be? Perhaps a Calvin and Hobbes book.)